www.PostCarbon.org
Post Carbon Institute is an educational
institution and think tank that explores in theory and
practice what cultures, civilization, governance & economies
might look like without the use of (non-renewable)
hydrocarbons as energy and chemical feedstocks.

www.hubbertpeak.com
Named after
the late Dr. M. King Hubbert, Geophysicist, this website
provides data, analysis and recommendations regarding the
upcoming peak in the rate of global oil extraction.

www.dynamiclist.com/
(Interviews and presentations)
Listen to what these
experts and authors have to say.

www.odac-info.org/
The Oil Depletion Analysis
Centre (ODAC) is an independent, UK-registered educational
charity working to raise international public awareness and
promote better understanding of the world's oil-depletion
problem.

A kinder, gentler view of the implications of peak oil.

Peak Oil Blues
A look at the psychological aspects of peak oil
The Archdruid Report
Informed and Educated perspectives on nature, culture, and the future of industrial society

Videos

The End of Suburbia
Oil Depletion and The Collapse
of The American Dream. This DVD is an
especially excellent movie for people that have never heard of Peak Oil.
(playing time approx. 78 minutes)

Peak
Oil: Imposed By Nature The film sets out to explain
the Peak Oil phenomenon giving an approximate date for
the Peak, and draws up lines of possible consequences
for Mankind. (playing time 28:30)

A Crude Awakening: Oil Crash
This film,
strongly endorsed by Crude Awakening, tells
the story of how our civilization’s addiction to oil puts
us on a collision course with geology. Compelling,
intelligent, and highly entertaining, the film visits with
the world’s top experts and comes to a startling, but
logical conclusion – our industrial society, built on
cheap and readily available oil, must be completely
redesigned and overhauled … immediately. Shot on location at oil fields in Azerbaijan,
Venezuela, the Middle East and Texas, with original music by Daniel Schnyder and Philip Glass,
the film provides not only very serious questions, but also
possible solutions to the most perplexing and important
economic, environmental and public policy issue of our
times.

The
Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak oil
was
inspired when Faith Morgan and Pat Murphy took a trip to
Cuba through Global Exchange in August, 2003. That year Pat
had begun studying and speaking about worldwide peak oil
production. In May Pat and Faith attended the second meeting
of The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas, a
European group of oil geologists and scientists, which
predicted that mankind was perilously close to having used
up half of the world's oil resources. When they learned that
Cuba underwent the loss of over half of its oil imports and
survived, after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1990, the
couple wanted to see for themselves how Cuba had done this.

Cuba
After Peak Oil
: When the Cold War ended and
the Soviet Union collapsed, so did energy support
from the Soviet Union to Cuba. Cuba lost more
than 50 percent of its oil imports, much of its
food and 85 percent of its trade economy. The Gross
Domestic Product dropped by more than one third,
transportation halted, people went hungry and the
average Cuban lost 30 pounds. The country was
forced into an emergency "relocalization"
effort. This document describes that effort
and its outcomes.

Kinsale
Energy Descent Action Plan: This is a
comprehensive relocalization action plan for the
town of Kinsale, in West Cork, with a population of
about 7,000 people. The plan was developed by
permaculture students at the Kinsale Further
Education College in 2005. This report
contains numerous ideas on how to "power
down" over a period of time.

San
Diego / Tijuana Action Plan
This is
a comprehensive case study authored by Jim Bell, an
expert and lecturer on Life Support Sustaining
Development at the Ecological Life Systems
Institute. The document outlines the
requirements and abilities of the region to
completely "re-localize" over a period of
approximately 20 years and modify the economy from
a net importer of energy, food and water to a net
exporter. Excellent ideas and approaches.
Driving
The Solution: The Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle:
As automakers gear up to satisfy a growing market for
fuel-efficient hybrid electric vehicles, the
next-generation hybrid is already cruising city streets,
and it can literally run on empty. The technology
is here, the electricity infrastructure is in place, and
the plug-in hybrid offers a key to replacing foreign oil
with domestic resources for energy independence, reduced
CO2 emissions, and lower fuel costs.

Decentralizing
Power-Energy For The 21st Century
(Greenpeace
publication) - A decentralized energy (DE) system has
two key characteristics. First, buildings (from
suburban homes to industrial units) double up as power
stations because they have within them one or more
energy generating technologies such as solar panels,
wind turbines or cogeneration units. Local impact
is important, cumulative impact could be enormous.
Second, local energy networks proliferate, distributing
heat and power. These networks will be
supplemented by community scale plants generating close
to the point of demand.

Facing
Some of the Hard Truths About Energy
(ExxonMobil) - A speech delivered by Lee Raymond, Chairman
and CEO of ExxonMobil, to the Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars, in June, 2004. The speech covers
multiple aspects of energy realities for the United states.

The
'Abiotic Oil' Controversy
(an article by Richard
Heinberg) - There is
some speculation that oil is abiotic in origin -- generally
asserting that oil is formed from magma instead of an
organic origin. The abiotic theory holds that there
must be nearly limitless pools of liquid primordial
hydrocarbons at great depths on Earth, pools that slowly
replenish the reservoirs that conventional oil drillers tap,
and that should, in theory, be reachable if we drill far
enough. And here is a separate link
to a blog debate on the subject.